Mt. Cook, NZ skied from summit 11/01/04 <pics>

Mt. Cook, South Island, New Zealand.....11/01/2004

One of my mates from NZ was hired to take photos and another was on the mission to ascend and descend Mt. Cook...for Red Bull. Todd Windle of NZ was the other Kiwi, and I don't know the rest of the crew.

Supposedly, as far as I know, Mt. Cook (NZ highest peak) has only been skied twice before from the summit due to the massive amount of snowfall required to make it possible. This year has been MASSIVE for snowfall down south...so it was on.

The word is that after a few bad days of weather, they had the greenlight and charged to the top, skied from the summit, had to rappel down a few feet, and then a ski the rest of the way....success. I don't know if the rappel means anything but they did ski from the top.

I don't any more than that...these photos were just sent to me as my friend finally got back to his computer. I'm guessing that the summit attempt was on the 1st, since he called me on 10/30 from the location.

Enjoy, these pics are SICK!!!!!

http://www.vidbusters.com/~casey/Cook1.jpg

http://www.vidbusters.com/~casey/Cook2.jpg

http://www.vidbusters.com/~casey/Cook3.jpg

http://www.vidbusters.com/~casey/Cook4.jpg

Mr. Windle...looks kinda icy:

http://www.vidbusters.com/~casey/Cook5.jpg

El Senor Windle on a big descent:

http://www.vidbusters.com/~casey/Cook6.jpg

i need to scrape up some money to go to NZ next summer, nice pics

You know who did the other descents? Curious.

The 1st is right on according to the snow.co.nz account:
http://www.snow.co.nz/media/media_in...eleaseKey=1701

I climbed that line the day after the second descent in 1996, kind of weird frontpointing beside ski tracks. Don't remember the name of the skier, not filmed or anything. he climbed it with a dude with a paraglder who had to climb down cos conditions weren't on to fly. I thimk the high (north) summit has also had a ski descent.

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http://www.vidbusters.com/~casey/Cook4.jpg

Todd W's a great guy and major props to the whole team!
but that photo doesn't look like the summit if that's what its supposed to be.

Anyway, fucking awesome!

The top of the Mountain fell off a while back. This shot shows the avalanche debris path. I don't know about skiing the other side, I doubt it would be that rad. That whole area is sick, plenty of other routes to scralp. My video shows allot of the surrounding area.
http://www.baconzoo.com/SumerStoke.wmv

Mt. Cook looks fairly interesting.

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Originally Posted by skier666

...had to rappel down a few feet, and then a ski the rest of the way....success. I don't know if the rappel means anything but they did ski from the top.

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Rappel=abseil=descent/lower oneself with rope.

Pussies.

FUCKING AWESOME! Way to kill it guys. Can't wait until I see that mountain out my window for the next four years.

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Originally Posted by Baconzoo

The top of the Mountain fell off a while back. This shot shows the avalanche debris path. I don't know about skiing the other side, I doubt it would be that rad. That whole area is sick, plenty of other routes to scralp. My video shows allot of the surrounding area.
http://www.baconzoo.com/SumerStoke.wmv

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Uhhhhhhhhh.....that's a fairly rad photo Baconzoo :FIREdevil :FIREdevil :FIREdevil

I think "Rad" to be dick deep and double over head face shots!

Hanging on to an ice ax while your feet are cramping in your crampons is "Crazy" in my book. I'll pay for a Heli ride, thanks. :confused:

Geoff Wyatt was the first to descend Mt Cook. November 15, 1982

Here's a pic from his site
http://www.mountainrec.co.nz/geoffcooksum.jpg

CAW! CAW!! CAW!!!

Beautiful pics! :D

Sweeeeeeet! :biggrin:

That sir is some dam good porn!

I can't wait to go to NZ next Summer!!!

sweet! this is cool picture right n'yaw

http://www.vidbusters.com/~casey/Cook3.jpg

Its official:

http://redbull.com/article.action?do...87997-56072484

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Originally Posted by vinzclortho

sweet! this is cool picture right n'yaw

http://www.vidbusters.com/~casey/Cook3.jpg

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yea, imagine how far away the photog is?!